SIMON MIGNOLET insists Sunderland’s weekend defeat against league champions Manchester City will have no bearing on the Wear-Tyne derby in 13 days’ time.

Sunderland were their own worst enemies at the back in the 3-0 loss and failed to make any impact going forward. Steven Fletcher forced the only real save out of Joe Hart – and that would have been offside.

But Mignolet says it will be a different game when the Black Cats host Newcastle United after the international break.

“Joe Hart only made one really good save from the Fletcher header, but it’s a totally different game when you play Newcastle at home than away at Manchester City,” said the 24-year-old, who has linked up with the Belgium squad for their World Cup qualifiers against Serbia and Scotland.

“It’s a different game and we’ll try to do our very best to get a result against Newcastle.

“We have to move on from this now. We can’t dwell on things, hopefully we come back fresh and fit and get a good result against Newcastle.”

Despite conceding three times against City – including a free-kick from Aleksandar Kolarov – Mignolet was still Sunderland’s man of the match, fine saves from Pablo Zabaleta, Micah Richards and Sergio Aguero keeping the score down.

“I lined my wall up and he [Kolarov] hits it over the wall,” the keeper said. “If he hits it in the top corner, you can’t really say much.

“I spoke to Vincent Kompany [City’s Belgian skipper] after the game and he said he does it every day in training. He’s really good at that. But as a goalkeeper, you’re disappointed with any goal you concede.

“When you start the game, you want to do well, but if you concede an early goal, it’s even tougher. It wasn’t the best to start the game in that way and after that, Manchester City were on top for the rest of the game.

“From then on, they played some really good football and created some good chances. We couldn’t really do anything about that.

“City put us under a lot of pressure and pressed very high up the pitch. But we weren’t at our best either.”

:: PHIL BARDSLEY is set to play his first competitive game since May as Sunderland U-21s visit Stoke tonight (7.30pm).